Year C - Trinity Sunday
I don’t know about you, but as I grow older, I appreciate the churches of my childhood and adolescence even more.Those churches in Burleson, Haltom City, and Austin chose to put up with a lot from me to give so much to me. I can remember standing in a pew at the First Baptist Church […]
Read MoreYear C—Day of Pentecost
“I can’t explain the power of prayer, but the older I get, the more I believe in it”, my friend Tom Dunn said during one of our long conversations. I feel the same way about the Holy Spirit. I cannot explain the Spirit, but I know that the Spirit is alive and well in our […]
Read MoreYear C - Seventh Sunday of Easter
My friend Tom knows how to laugh. He has had a lot to laugh (and cry) about in his eighty-nine years. He also knows how to make an important point with humor. Several years ago we were driving down a rural road on our way to a funeral. We passed the Fellowship Baptist Church. About […]
Read MoreYear C - Sixth Sunday of Easter
Have you ever been stuck…not in the mud, but stuck in life? I’ve known a lot of stuck people over the years. The condition is not that uncommon. For example, one of my colleagues was miserable teaching school. He hated teaching, but had taught for so many years that he didn’t know if he had […]
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